Clothes-strainer.



S. C. GLOW.

CLOTHES STRAlNER;

APPLICATION FILED NOV-28. 191.

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SIDNEY C. GLOW, OF ANTHONY, KANSAS.

CLOTHES-STRAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

Application filed. November 28, 1911. Serial No. 662,903.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SIDNEY C. Grow, a citizen of the United States, residing at Anthony, in the county of Harper and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Strainers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to clothes strainers and more particularly to that class of clothes strainers which are used in connection with wash boilers and the like.

The principal object of my invention is to provide clothes straining means adapted to be used in connection with wash boilers of the well known type having a substantially elliptical horizontal section, the said means being simple in construction and inexpensive to manufacture.

A further object of my invention is to provide clothes straining means which are used in connection with wash boilers of the character described, the said means being light and so constructed as to assure their durability.

IVith the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention relates to such details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote.

like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which,

Figure 1 is a sectional view of a boiler showing my invention in elevation. Fig. 2 a sectional view of a boiler showing my invention in elevation and in position as will be hereinafter described. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan view of my invention. Fig. at is a detail view.

In the accompanying drawings which fully illustrate the preferred form of my invention, 1 designates a suitable boiler of the usual type having a substantially elliptical horizontal section. I desire it to be understood that the invention hereinafter disclosed is readily applicable to numerous different types of boilers and that I do not limit myself to any specific type.

In the construction of the strainer I provide an elongated top frame member 2 which is preferably constructed of heavy wire or the like and shaped like the horizontal section of the boiler. Depending from each end of the said top member is a V-shaped main frame member of heavy Wire as shown at 3 symmetrically disposed with respect to the longitudinal axis of frame member 2. Depending from each side I also provide transverse frame members 4: of heavy wire which are connected to each side of the top frame member 2 and are extended so as to engage in under the member 3 to help in sustaining. the load. hen constructing my invention I find it advantageous to employ the 'use of several reinforcing strands of wire 5 but I do not limit myself to any number thereof.

In the drawings I have shown a reticulated receptacle 6 supported by the frame members 8 and 4 whereby a suitable receptacle is formed as is clearly illustrated. For purpose of holding the receptacle 6 and the frame members 3 and I in place I employ the lengths of coil wire 8 which are disposed in engagement with said members as will be readily recognized upon reference to the drawings.

I rigidly dispose upon the main frame member 3 the hooks 9 which may engage the top edge of the boiler 1 whereby clothes which are held. within the receptacle 6 may be drained or, in other words, the water contained upon the clothes which are held within the receptacle 6 may run off into the boiler l. For the purpose of lifting the strainer to and from a receptacle I provide the top member 2 with the handles 10 as is clearly illustrated in the drawings. Further I may position upon the top member 2 a sheet 11 which covers the same and gives it a neat appearance as well as reinforces it.

In use, the operator, when desiring to immerse the clothes in the liquid contained in boiler l, presses inwardly on the hooks 9, causing the frame member 3 to yield inwardly until these hooks lie within the plane of the inner periphery of the boiler. The strainer may thus be lowered with ease. hen it is desired to allow the liquid to drain from the clothes by gravity, the strainer is raised, and, the member 3 being inherently resilient, disposes the hooks on the top edge of receptacle 1 when they rise from contact with the internal periphery of the boiler. By disposing the member 3 symmetrically with respect to the longitudinal axis of the frame member 2, merely two hooks, which may be of wire, are required to support the strainer in a stable position extended from the boiler, even though the container 6 has disposed therein a considerable volume of clothes.

I desire it to be understood that I may make slight changes in the construction Without departing from the spirit of my invention provided such changes fall Within the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination With a Wash boiler of a strainer, said strainer comprising an elongated horizontal loop member having a U- shaped member depending longitudinally therefrom, a reticulated receptacle formed integral Withsaid loop member and said depending member, said loop member hav ing a second U-shaped member depending therefrom transversely With respect to said receptacle and providing a lateral support therefor, and hooks rigidly carried by said longitudinally U-shaped member and adapt ed for engagement with the rim of said boiler, for supporting said strainer in an elevated position, said hooks positioned adjacent the lower portion of each arm of said longitudinal U-shaped member and adapted to bear against the inner Wall of said boiler when said strainer is placed therein, for tensionably Withholding said arms from engagement therewith.

2. The combination With an outer receptacle, of an inner receptacle comprising a loop conforming to the configuration of the outer receptacle and a reticulated body depending from said loop, a plurality of spaced substantially U-shaped members de pending transversely from said loop, eXteriorly of said reticulated body and supporting the latter, a second U-shaped member depending longitudinally from the ends of said loop and disposed Within the reticulated body, said longitudinal member 00- acting with the transverse members for supporting and retaining said body in the eX- tended position, hooks carried by said longitudinal member, and protective means arranged on said loop for securing the free ends of the U-shaped members and Wire strands of the reticulated receptacle.

SIDNEY C. GLOW.

Vitnesses GENEVA LEAR, L. MoomrnAD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Qatonts, Washington, 1). 0. 

